Fanny Raoul

Her father, Claude-René Raoul, was first a notary, then a prosecutor of the bishopric, the first alderman of Saint-Pol-de-Léon and finally, a commissioner of the court of Morlaix after the revolution.

[4] Raoul moved to Paris where she frequented the salons of Thérésa Tallien, Juliette Récamier, and Germaine de Staël.

Influenced by the thinking of Claude Adrien Helvétius, and citing Étienne Bonnot de Condillac,[6] Raoul denounces the weight of opinion and prejudice.

Here, she denounced again the injustice of prejudice and opinion contrary to reason in a world of classes and labels, through the story of her heroine, a woman who looks after the children of a good family and struggles to keep her independence.

This work was controversial: she accused Alexandre-Vincent Pineux Duval, member of the Académie Française and director of the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe, of plagiarism.

[10] She delivered a comparative study that was much debated and her fight was panned by journalists who nicknamed her the "Breton Amazon".

One finds in particular Idées d'une française sur la constitution faite ou à faire (Ideas of a Frenchwoman on the constitution made or to be made in) which she fears the return to an absolute monarchic system allowing that a class of citizens arrogates to itself the right to oppress all the others.

Each number includes general information, political bills, art criticisms and a column on literature.

The publication of Le Véridique ends with the appointment of Benjamin Constant to the Conseil d'État by Napoleon.

She tirelessly demonstrated that women were quite capable of reasoning and of holding positions of high responsibility, provided they had access to education.

Raoul was at war with the legislators who sent women back to the private sphere where they suffered the tyranny of public opinion.

[4] Jean-Marie Raoul, her elder brother, had a brilliant career at the parliament of Rennes, Lorient, and then in Paris where he was a lawyer at the Conseil d'État and at the Court of Cassation from 1792.